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-# Scything+This topic is part of [[gt:gardening|Gardening, smallholding & farming]]. 
 +====== Scything ======
  
  
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-## What is scything?+===== What is scything? =====
  
 Scything (verb): act of using a scythe (noun), a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or corn, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole with one or two handles. Scything (verb): act of using a scythe (noun), a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or corn, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole with one or two handles.
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-## What are the benefits of scything?+===== What are the benefits of scything? =====
  
 **To the wider environment:** fewer internal combustion engines! No pollution, no fossil fuels, less embodied energy in the manufacturing process and a longer life. Their versatility can replace more than one machine, not to mention reduce the use of selective herbicides. **To the wider environment:** fewer internal combustion engines! No pollution, no fossil fuels, less embodied energy in the manufacturing process and a longer life. Their versatility can replace more than one machine, not to mention reduce the use of selective herbicides.
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-## What can I do?+===== What can I do? =====
  
 First decide if the machinery that has replaced them is better, or is there still a place for scythes? By careful choice of blade type and size, scythes can be used for a wide variety of tasks around farm and garden. Their versatility can replace the need for mower, strimmer or power scythe for weed control amongst cultivated plants and trees; maintaining awkward areas like bumpy and uneven ground, fence lines, banks, ditches and narrow grass paths; mowing lawns, green manure crops, cereals or hay. First decide if the machinery that has replaced them is better, or is there still a place for scythes? By careful choice of blade type and size, scythes can be used for a wide variety of tasks around farm and garden. Their versatility can replace the need for mower, strimmer or power scythe for weed control amongst cultivated plants and trees; maintaining awkward areas like bumpy and uneven ground, fence lines, banks, ditches and narrow grass paths; mowing lawns, green manure crops, cereals or hay.
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-## Further resources+===== Forum =====
  
 +This topic belongs to the section [[gt:gardening|Gardening, smallholding & farming]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/gardening).
  
 +===== Further resources =====
  
-## Specialist curators of this topic+- [The Beauty of Scythes](https://scythesupply.com/beautyofscythes.html) 
 +- [Scythe Association of Britain & Ireland](https://scytheassociation.org/) 
 +- [Simon Fairlie](https://www.thescytheshop.co.uk/permascythes.html) - how Austrian scythes changed my life 
 +- [Mother Earth News](https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/how-to-use-a-scythe-zmaz81mjzraw/) - how to use a scythe 
 +- [Green Scythe Fair](https://www.greenfair.org.uk/) - annual festival 
 +- [World Wide Scythe Network](https://www.sensenverein.at/world-wide.html) 
 +- [Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet](https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/abbeydale-industrial-hamlet/) - 18th century water-powered industrial works, now a museum; the main product was agricultural scythes 
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 +===== Related topics ===== 
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 +- [[smho:Smallholding]] 
 +- [[livs:livestock|Keeping livestock]] 
 +- [[mdws:meadows|Meadows, grassland and pasture]] 
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 +===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
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